Paul Torres, 51, walked out of a subway car at Penn Station, collapsed from a seizure and rolled onto the subway tracks.

Paul Torres, 51 (Santos/NYDN)

As a No. 2 train barreled into the station, the Bronx man scurried into the drainage trench. The train passed over him and he survived without a scratch.

Emergency workers lifted him from the tracks and raced him to Bellevue Hospital. Torres faded in and out of consciousness.

It was at Bellevue that doctors told him he had a malignant brain tumor.

"The next thing I knew I was in a hospital room," he recalled of the near-death experience four years ago. "My mother was there, and the doctors came in and said they had found a tumor in my brain."

Three months before he fell to the tracks, a doctor told Torres to get an MRI, because he was suffering from severe headaches for a year, but he never went. It was only after he tumbled onto the tracks that a doctor

In the last dozen years, there have been 523 motor vehicle accidents at the intersection of Essex and Delancey Sts. - 134 involving pedestrians and bicyclists - according to figures for 1998 to 2010 obtained from the state Department of Transportation.

Three people died.

The most recent was Patricia Crockett of Brooklyn, who was crushed under the rear wheels of a private sanitation truck turning left on Essex St. as she crossed Delancey St. outside the crosswalk on May 10.

"I believe it is the most dangerous intersection on the East Side of Manhattan," lawyer Sanford Rubenstein told the Daily News. He has filed a lawsuit against the owner and driver of the truck, and notice of a $20 million suit against the city.

Rubenstein said it appears Crockett was forced to walk in the roadway because there were concrete barriers along the curb and an orange barricade at the corner of Delancey

"She saved them all," said Lyn Joseph, 36. "She said, 'Run, run,' to all the other kids, because she saw the car coming. And when she went to move out of the way it was too late."

Sean Lewis, who had a stab wound to the torso, was driving the SUV west on Pacific St. when it hit three double-parked cars near Saratoga Ave. about 10:10 p.m. Saturday, cops said. He backed up, hit a parked car and flipped his vehicle.

The SUV pinned Kira onto the front steps of her apartment building. She died at the scene.

Pagination

China's Communist rulers have turned against the exclusive sport of golf with the government saying nearly 70 "illegal" courses have been closed, seemingly enforcing a decade-old ban for the first time. The announcement by the ministry of land and resources comes amid a high-profile anti-graft campaign spearheaded by President Xi Jinping, which has seen crackdowns on banquets, lavish gift-giving and other official excesses. The ruling Communist Party has long had an ambivalent relationship with golf, which is a lucrative opportunity for local authorities and a favoured pastime of some officials, but is also closely associated with wealth and Western elites. "Presently, local governments have shut down a number of illegally-built golf courses, and preliminary results have been achieved in clean-up and rectification work," read the announcement on the ministry's website late Monday.